Changing faces at Meadow Park

Long serving player ends career at Threave after eight years

The long-serving left back, who has spent eight years at the club either side of a spell at Dalbeattie Star, was released on Monday.

Also leaving in the past week was striker Steven Degnan who has been loaned to St Cuthbert Wanderers.

Coming the other way is Colin Carnochan who has joined Threave on loan until the end of the season.

Manager Euan Brydson said: “He’s a player who has always done well against us. He’s an experienced player, is left footed and likes going forward.

“It’s an opportunity for him to have a look at us so he’s not coming in blind. It’s a chance for both of us to see what each other is about.

“He’s been out for a while but we have plenty of games in which to get him fit.

“Darren is leaving on good terms. He has been a good servant and has done well. It’s just looking towards the squad for next season and he wasn’t part of them.

“Steven is looking to play more games and he wasn’t always available for us so he’s just gone there to get some game time.

“We are always looking for players but we have a big squad and if anything happens we’ll need to move people on as we can’t have too big a squad at this level.”

Threave have no game this weekend as they were due to play Stranraer in the South of Scotland Challenge Cup last night.

It’s the second weekend running they’ll have no game as last Saturday’s match with East Kilbride fell victim to the weather with the players set to train once again ahead of the following week’s match against Spartans.

Brydson added: “There’s a bit of interest in that game because if the boy McLeod scores for them on Saturday then he can break the record for scoring in consecutive games when he plays us so we’ll see where we are after Saturday.”